Masquerade | 2010

Title: Masquerade
Date: 2010
Material: Digital Art on Board
Size: 75cm x 100cm
Artist: Joe Pollitt
Signed and framed by the artist

Description:

"Masquerade" is made up from a series of digital layers. Starting off with the bright and colourful linear shapes that create an optical illusion of movement and behind this movement are folds of papers. These folds make up the three dimensional figure of the classic swan from the Oriental art form of Origami. As these underlying layers of folds push forward, so they create the impression of a series of masks.

The concept behind the work is that at the core of art lies the primitive image of the 'Mask'. This basic shape is at the centre of Cubism and at the heart of Modernism. This form is found in all parts of the world from Papua New Guinea; to the Aztecs of Mexico; to the Incas in Peru; to the Ashanti in Ghana and the Yoruba in Nigeria. All art has a beginning and "Masquerade", suggests that, regardless of the direction an artist chooses to take, they will inevitable begin or end up with the paramount image of the 'Mask'.






By pushing colours and images in and out of focus a possible visual conversation beings to occur. A language of art appears as if in a whisper initially and then the sounds become louder as the images become more apparent and then tapper off at the end. More work along these lines could create a musical function to visual art and so we read a painting as a poem or a ballard or an orchestra of sound. The possibilities are endless and in the future our knowledge of the language of art will be heard and seen in the same capacity and therefore expanding our senses in terms of our visual and hearing capabilities.